habeas corpus

• “All admit that this is a case in point, because, as by the action of replevin, the property is taken from the hands of the officer, so by the writ of habeas corpus is the body of the prisoner.”

  Cases of habeas corpus, decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June term, 1863,

• “Some state judges so captiously disputed the constitutionality of various military laws that the writ of habeas corpus had to be suspended.31”

  Simon & Schuster: LEE’S LIEUTENANTS

• “If goods will be taken from a federal officer's custody by process from a State Court, because he detained them wrongfully, though by color of an act of Congress, a fortiori, will a habeas corpus lie to deliver a man from false imprisonment.”

  Cases of habeas corpus, decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June term, 1863,

• “Moore contended that this reasoning failed in its application to the Confederate government, and argued that the judiciary act of the United States gave to the Federal Judges jurisdiction by habeas corpus in cases of confinement, under color of authority of the U. States, as well as by by virtue of that authority; whereas, the”

  Cases of habeas corpus, decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June term, 1863,

• “* Judge MANLY was absent during the greater part of the term on account of sickness, and did not participate in the consideration of any of the cases of habeas corpus decided at this term.”

  Cases of habeas corpus, decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June term, 1863,

• “Those respecting the press, religion, and juries, with several others, of great value, were accordingly made; but the habeas corpus was left to the discretion of Congress, and the amendment against the re-eligibility of the President was not proposed.”

  Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies

• “His most noted legal argument was the appeal in habeas corpus proceedings on behalf of Vallandigham in”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss

• “In re Veremaitre, Am. Law Journal, 438, the Court said: "a State Court has no jurisdiction on habeas corpus to discharge a soldier or sailor held under law of the United States.”

  Cases of habeas corpus, decided by the Supreme Court of North Carolina, at the June term, 1863,

• “The absence of express declarations ensuring freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of the person under the uninterrupted protection of the habeas corpus and trial by jury in civil, as well as in criminal cases, excited my jealousy; and the re-eligibility of the President for life, I quite disapproved.”

  Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies

• “First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly & without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal & unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land & not by the law of nations.”

  Letters

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